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Friday, 30 August 2013

The Tra­di­tion­al­ist Youth Net­work (TYN), a small youth group founded by white suprema­cists Matt Par­rott and Matthew Heim­bach,
announced plans to hold a “Koran Bar­be­cue” event on Sep­tem­ber 11 in
Cen­tral Michi­gan. Par­tic­i­pants report­edly plan to burn Qur’ans
and eat pork to demon­strate their anti-Muslim hatred. The serv­ing of pork at the bar­be­cue is an exam­ple of the TYN copy­ing the tac­tics of the French far-right polit­i­cal party Bloc Iden­ti­taire (BI). BI focuses on tak­ing direct action to intim­i­date the Mus­lim com­mu­nity; for exam­ple BI
hosts bar­be­ques in pre­dom­i­nately Mus­lim areas of French cities
where the group serves pork and wine, both for­bid­den in the Islamic
faith. TYN is mod­eled after BI’s youth move­ment, Gen­er­a­tion Iden­ti­taire (GI).
Heim­bach and Parrott’s aim is to attract white youth to their
move­ment and to con­vince them to take part in direct action events. Heim­bach also used Storm­front, the largest white
suprema­cist Inter­net forum, to adver­tise the “Koran Bar­beque” event.
He encour­aged peo­ple to join in the event, stat­ing, “this can go
along with protest­ing a mosque or any activ­ity to let the Islamic
invaders know that they are not welcome.” TYN is not the only extrem­ist groups plan­ning to burn Qur’ans on Sep­tem­ber 11. Terry Jones, the pas­tor of the Dove World Out­reach Cen­ter,
a vir­u­lently anti-Muslim, anti-gay apos­tolic church for­merly based
in Gainesville, Florida, has said that his group would burn copies of
the Qur’an that day.Aside from the “Koran Bar­be­cue,” Heim­bach and
Par­rott recently passed out fly­ers in the town of Perry, Michi­gan,
adver­tis­ing TYN. Perry is just 12 miles south of Owosso, where TYN
has a P.O. Box. The fly­ers handed out by Heim­bach and Par­rott attack
“con­ser­v­a­tives” for being sur­prised when “fem­i­nism, glob­al­ism,
open bor­ders, rad­i­cal Islam, and anti-White racism always end up
win­ning.” The fly­ers also allege that the left “hates us because we
rep­re­sent a gen­uine threat to Culu­tral Marx­ists, to Orga­nized
Jewry, and to Global Capitalism.” On August 26, Par­rott, Heim­bach and Thomas Buhls, the white suprema­cist founder of the Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity chap­ter of TYN, protested out­side a left-leaning book­store in Bloom­ing­ton, Indi­ana, claim­ing it was a “Marx­ist organization.” Heim­bach and Par­rott recently attended and addressed the
third annual “Prac­ti­cal Pol­i­tics Sem­i­nar” hosted by white
suprema­cist Don Black, founder of Storm­front, in Ten­nessee. Other atten­dees included white suprema­cists David Duke, Paul Fromm and Sam Dick­son. In the past, TYN’s
few mem­bers lim­ited their activ­i­ties to net­work­ing on the
Inter­net and attend­ing white suprema­cist events, but are try­ing to
use the flyer cam­paign and planned Qur’an burn­ing event to draw more
atten­tion and fol­low­ers to their cause. source: adl